Video: Son of the One Minute Manager

David Witt: Well, Scott, thanks so much for meeting me. I really appreciate it. You know, I know you're busy, got a lot of things going on, but one of the things I want to find out though is, how did you first get started in it? Scott Blanchard: Yeah, I'm kind of the son of the one minute manager.

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Son of the One Minute Manager

David Witt: Well, Scott, thanksso much for meeting me. I really appreciate it.You know, I know you're busy, got a lot of things going on, but one ofthe things I want to find out though is, how did you first get started in it?Scott Blanchard: Yeah, I'm kind of the son of the one minute manager.David Witt: Uh-huh.Scott Blanchard: You know my, my dad wrote thatbook when I was at junior in high school.And, and what was, what was kind of interesting aboutthat is I grew up the son of a leadership expert.He became a guru later on, but when I was a kid he was a professor.And, and so I kind of felt like a lab rat a little bit as a kid.I mean, it was a really, my parents are amazing,but, but, whenever I did anything you know, in the house.

Or particularly, I caused a lot of trouble as a, as a boy.But whatever I did, they would, if Igot in trouble, they would usually sit me down.David Witt: Okay.Scott Blanchard: At the kitchen table, and they would, they would literallysay, Scott, what's up?Your behavior it's, it, it's incongruent with the stated family values.David Witt:Scott Blanchard: What's up with that? David Witt: Uh-huh.Scott Blanchard: And would I, I had to explain kindof my behavior up against the intentions that I had.David Witt: Right.Scott Blanchard: And the impact that was created and all of that.It was like, it felt like a lot of white white's, you know, interrogation, youknow, as, as a kid but I, I got a lot of lessons from it.David Witt: It's pretty intuit when think aboutit, when you talk about the whole idea ofyou know, most of us would expect thatwe'd get in trouble, get grounded, something like that.

But you werekind of more, your parents were going intomore of an exploration of what the behavior was.Scott Blanchard: Right.David Witt: How it was impacting people.Scott Blanchard: Yeah, we didn't get punished with extra chores or, orrestriction or certainly nobody ever smacked us, my sister and I, as kids.But, but we usually had to explain, you know,pretty rigorously, what we were thinking and what we woulddo again had we had a chance to do itagain, and it really taught me a lot of things.One thing that was really important at the end of each of those conversationsis my dad would always say something like we've been talking about this longenough now, what I want to know is where are you headed?But where are you headed in life, Scott?You know, and I'd say, well, first ofall, I'm going to go to your, your, your college.

You know, that was the first thing to try to get him off my back.But I knew I had to come up with a pretty good answer, and I would typically talkabout the idea that I, I really wanted theworld to be better for me having been here.And that I wanted to make a positive contribution to people and the planet.My parents were idealists, so you had to do something about the planet in there.David Witt:Scott Blanchard: but, but seriously, I would say,I had a pretty good idea of where I wasgoing, and then my dad would always say God, Scott.You know, but your behavior is going in this direction.David Witt: Right.Scott Blanchard: And then you're actually, you know,talking about a vision that's going in this direction.The big question is, how is the behavior that's goingthis way, how is that going to get you to there?David Witt: Yes, so they were seen as the two were not matching up.

Scott Blanchard: Yeah, they always said life is pretty simple.It goes you know, if you have an aspiration, you need to make sure thatyour actions and your activities and yourenergy is lined up in that general direction.And if you have an aspiration you're talkingabout and you're going in the other directionwould, what you know, there's, it's not going to work.David Witt: Got it.Scott Blanchard: And that's what leadership is about, andI got fascinated with that from the, from the beginning.Really interesting to, to see how companies often don't do that.They don't put those two pieces together.David Witt: Now did you go into management right away in,in college or that's something that's kind of came in later?Scott Blanchard: I went to hotel school.And so I got early experience managing restaurants and hotels.

And I actually did a bunch of internships.And I started off for a few years in that field.And then I think I was 28, I came to work for my, my family business.I got beaten up pretty.David Witt:Scott Blanchard: Pretty well in the hospitality industry for agood number of years before I came to the the company.David Witt: It's good training though, don't you think, hospitality?I mean it, it kind of grounds you in somereal life you know, service of, of customers and stuff.Scott Blanchard: It really does, because it's all about people, isn't it?It's all about service, it's about people andit's about making it happen every single day.David Witt: Yeah. Scott Blanchard: And every single moment.

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